"If one satelite is destroyed the debris will spread and destroy every other satellite in space"
...highly unlikely. Space is called that because it is just that, space. There are several hundred artificial satellites in orbit and thousands, if not millions, of small rocks drift into and burn up in the earth's atmosphere daily. If you mean to say that the fragments from the destruction of a teeny, man-made satellite will add significantly to the collision hazard upon other satellites, I am quite sorry to inform that this is quite wrong.
I doubt that the supposed violent explosion of cobalt oxide above 140F is violent enough to cause anything more than serious damage to the battery (duh! it don't work no more) and some minor damage requiring some duct tape to whatever the battery is attached to. From what I've read, it sounds like this:
Cobalt oxide is in Li-Ion batteries. Above 140F, cobalt oxide becomes cobalt and gaseous oxygen, and starts an exothermic reaction. The exothermic reaction causes itself to continue to get hotter and hotter, causing the oxygen to detach from the cobalt more and more rapidly into the sealed part of the battery that it's held in. At some point, the pressure builds to the point of violently breaking open the battery casing. You hear a loud pop and think "Holy crap! I could have died!"
This also sparks some curiousity towards the old Li-Ion battery from a cellular phone of mine that died a year ago. >:D
I take it that I'm no longer allowed to run a screen saver? What about those cell phones with the multi-colored blinky buttons? What about those desktop fiber optic Christmas tree things? What about the blinky Christmas lights that do all that fading and stuff?
I think that should be enough prior art... how to I challenge a patent?
MPEG is a well entrenched video standard, and it is possible to play it on a huge variety of video players. If you're using Linux, go to freshmeat.net and do a search for MPlayer. It's a very versatile video player, the only problem is that it's a command line program, but it gets the job done. Just can't do the damned RealPlayer format. I watched some of the MPEGs off the armadillo site, and they played fine.
With those factors considered, a paintball, which is a hazard being shot at 300fps (lost eyes, broken teeth, bruises, welts, and other assorted nastys), could well almost become a lethal-"non-lethal" crowd control method.
Actually, current "non-lethal" weapons, such as rubber bullets do kill pretty often. A pepper spray paintball would not kill nearly as often simply because of the fact that it explodes and absorbs much of its own force by itself. However, the pepper spray would do the deterrent job of beanbags and rubber bullets quite nicely. Obviously, that still doesn't help with severe eye damage, but if you pepper spray somone with regular mace, you're still gonna damage/destroy their eyes anyway.
Don't broadcast outside of your assigned frequency, don't go above the power limit (you can find info on that somewhere...), and pay them money to assign you a callsign and a license.
The equipment...
An FM commercial transmitter (bring $$$), low electricity bill (more $$$), an antenna (some cities have regulations against antennas, you better check, oh and more $$$, but you can make a decent one with hardware store parts.)
Also, to publicly play music like that, you'll have to contact the RIAA, they've streamlined the whole process, so all you need to do is give them money.
That's interesting, because I have a friend who's planning on buying a saphire engagement ring. I don't remember exactly what his reasons were, but as I recall, he liked the blue color rather than the transparent color of diamonds.
A friend and I maintain a small website that's mostly just HTML and JPEGs, so floppies are much faster than burning a CD to transport a few silly HTML pages of very small size. What? They think that people have no use for small files anymore?
...Microsoft officials are looking into how it is able to...control the modem.
I always knew that Microsoft wrote Windows not knowing exactly how it worked, and now they've got a hardware product that they don't understand how to control the modem of. They bring me a good laugh every day.
Six months ago, I sent a call-to-action to Microsoft's 50,000 employees, outlining what I believe is the highest priority for the company and for our industry over the next decade: building a Trustworthy Computing environment for customers that is as reliable as the electricity that powers our homes and businesses today.
I live in California, need I say more? Not to mention the price of electricity here...
A library near me even uses this for search terminals. They all log into a central X server. Interestingly enough, the internet terminals are all WindowsNT boxes.
Actually, the weapons described in the article aren't WMD; they don't end human lives. I guess indirectly, though, they could by destroying buildings, assuming that they go that far.
But at the same time, if the bacteria couldn't reproduce, then they wouldn't be nearly as effective as the military would want them to be. Even though you could get a few microbes onto weaponry to deteriorate it, there wouldn't be enough of them to be effective if the couldn't reproduce. The reason milk goes bad as quickly as it does when left out is because the bacteria reproduce to a large enough population to produce enough waste to make you scowl at the flavor. The bacteria in said article would also be intended to "spoil the milk," where the milk in this case is ammunition or weaponry.
Crap! It seems that they don't ever learn. But what they fail to realize is that an analog watermark would be hard as hell to write a digital detector for. If the watermark is in any way obfuscated (line noise, someone's head in the front row of the movie theater, etc.) Then what's going to detect it? I would love to meet the Nazis that are writing this plan and the software to enforce it.
The protocol, which is part of Message Queuing, contains a coding mistake that would threaten the security of enterprise systems using it if it were disclosed, Allchin said.
Why not fix the god damn bug and release a patch? Holy shit! Microsoft releasing free patches?! It works under Linux, why can't it work for Microsoft?
It also seems that Jim Allchin has no brain... afterall, he is all chin.
No, not over the internet, cause that's illegal. Just get a whole bunch of people to submit many, many patent requests every day. Since they're "understaffed" this would have the effect equivalent to a distributed DoS attack on a windoze95 box. Who's with me?
Modify the GPL to make it more free than it already is and name your version the TAG... This Ain't GPL. Then license your code under that. Is it really that hard?
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"If one satelite is destroyed the debris will spread and destroy every other satellite in space"
...highly unlikely. Space is called that because it is just that, space. There are several hundred artificial satellites in orbit and thousands, if not millions, of small rocks drift into and burn up in the earth's atmosphere daily. If you mean to say that the fragments from the destruction of a teeny, man-made satellite will add significantly to the collision hazard upon other satellites, I am quite sorry to inform that this is quite wrong.
I dunno... suing Verisign for anything is pretty gutsy, and I do particularly dislike them, but this lawsuit is pretty dumb.
I doubt that the supposed violent explosion of cobalt oxide above 140F is violent enough to cause anything more than serious damage to the battery (duh! it don't work no more) and some minor damage requiring some duct tape to whatever the battery is attached to. From what I've read, it sounds like this:
Cobalt oxide is in Li-Ion batteries. Above 140F, cobalt oxide becomes cobalt and gaseous oxygen, and starts an exothermic reaction. The exothermic reaction causes itself to continue to get hotter and hotter, causing the oxygen to detach from the cobalt more and more rapidly into the sealed part of the battery that it's held in. At some point, the pressure builds to the point of violently breaking open the battery casing. You hear a loud pop and think "Holy crap! I could have died!"
This also sparks some curiousity towards the old Li-Ion battery from a cellular phone of mine that died a year ago. >:D
I take it that I'm no longer allowed to run a screen saver? What about those cell phones with the multi-colored blinky buttons? What about those desktop fiber optic Christmas tree things? What about the blinky Christmas lights that do all that fading and stuff?
I think that should be enough prior art... how to I challenge a patent?
MPEG is a well entrenched video standard, and it is possible to play it on a huge variety of video players. If you're using Linux, go to freshmeat.net and do a search for MPlayer. It's a very versatile video player, the only problem is that it's a command line program, but it gets the job done. Just can't do the damned RealPlayer format. I watched some of the MPEGs off the armadillo site, and they played fine.
Blue LEDs! Add some of those and you have a geek worthy article.
With those factors considered, a paintball, which is a hazard being shot at 300fps (lost eyes, broken teeth, bruises, welts, and other assorted nastys), could well almost become a lethal-"non-lethal" crowd control method.
Actually, current "non-lethal" weapons, such as rubber bullets do kill pretty often. A pepper spray paintball would not kill nearly as often simply because of the fact that it explodes and absorbs much of its own force by itself. However, the pepper spray would do the deterrent job of beanbags and rubber bullets quite nicely. Obviously, that still doesn't help with severe eye damage, but if you pepper spray somone with regular mace, you're still gonna damage/destroy their eyes anyway.
The FCCs regulations are simple...
Don't broadcast outside of your assigned frequency, don't go above the power limit (you can find info on that somewhere...), and pay them money to assign you a callsign and a license.
The equipment...
An FM commercial transmitter (bring $$$), low electricity bill (more $$$), an antenna (some cities have regulations against antennas, you better check, oh and more $$$, but you can make a decent one with hardware store parts.)
Also, to publicly play music like that, you'll have to contact the RIAA, they've streamlined the whole process, so all you need to do is give them money.
Hope that helps.
Something I noticed:
"Neighborhood Association" = N/A
That's interesting, because I have a friend who's planning on buying a saphire engagement ring. I don't remember exactly what his reasons were, but as I recall, he liked the blue color rather than the transparent color of diamonds.
Now you've done it. I have found another way to terrorize my neighbors... as if rapid CO2 discharges weren't enough... >:D
What are you? New? You left out the obligatory link to a page showing how to build a prism tower!
A friend and I maintain a small website that's mostly just HTML and JPEGs, so floppies are much faster than burning a CD to transport a few silly HTML pages of very small size. What? They think that people have no use for small files anymore?
...Microsoft officials are looking into how it is able to...control the modem.
I always knew that Microsoft wrote Windows not knowing exactly how it worked, and now they've got a hardware product that they don't understand how to control the modem of. They bring me a good laugh every day.
"Yes, let us pull down his pants and spank him with the moon rocks."
Six months ago, I sent a call-to-action to Microsoft's 50,000 employees, outlining what I believe is the highest priority for the company and for our industry over the next decade: building a Trustworthy Computing environment for customers that is as reliable as the electricity that powers our homes and businesses today.
I live in California, need I say more? Not to mention the price of electricity here...
Entertainment moguls boil in their hot tubs as movies and music are swapped, gratis, on the Internet.
Well, if they still have all their hot tubs and lovely little luxuries like that, how much money are they really losing from piracy?
The day before I heard about said virus, I stopped logging into my computer as root for normal usage. I'll keep this in mind as a warning.
A library near me even uses this for search terminals. They all log into a central X server. Interestingly enough, the internet terminals are all WindowsNT boxes.
Actually, the weapons described in the article aren't WMD; they don't end human lives. I guess indirectly, though, they could by destroying buildings, assuming that they go that far.
But at the same time, if the bacteria couldn't reproduce, then they wouldn't be nearly as effective as the military would want them to be. Even though you could get a few microbes onto weaponry to deteriorate it, there wouldn't be enough of them to be effective if the couldn't reproduce. The reason milk goes bad as quickly as it does when left out is because the bacteria reproduce to a large enough population to produce enough waste to make you scowl at the flavor. The bacteria in said article would also be intended to "spoil the milk," where the milk in this case is ammunition or weaponry.
Crap! It seems that they don't ever learn. But what they fail to realize is that an analog watermark would be hard as hell to write a digital detector for. If the watermark is in any way obfuscated (line noise, someone's head in the front row of the movie theater, etc.) Then what's going to detect it? I would love to meet the Nazis that are writing this plan and the software to enforce it.
The protocol, which is part of Message Queuing, contains a coding mistake that would threaten the security of enterprise systems using it if it were disclosed, Allchin said.
Why not fix the god damn bug and release a patch? Holy shit! Microsoft releasing free patches?! It works under Linux, why can't it work for Microsoft?
It also seems that Jim Allchin has no brain... afterall, he is all chin.
No, not over the internet, cause that's illegal. Just get a whole bunch of people to submit many, many patent requests every day. Since they're "understaffed" this would have the effect equivalent to a distributed DoS attack on a windoze95 box. Who's with me?
Modify the GPL to make it more free than it already is and name your version the TAG... This Ain't GPL. Then license your code under that. Is it really that hard?